Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/05/04

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But I left my measuring tape and ruler in the shed when the welcome rain 
started to pour me poor own self drenched ?
Good for the grass ( some call it lawn) and the two sheep we have been 
putting up for a month now :-)

Amities

Philippe



> Le 4 mai 2021 ? 17:38, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit :
> 
> 
> Yes, it is the very planned decisive moment with probably Willi Baumeister 
> (or his twin) carrying a painting. You wonder were any of the other people 
> in the picture prompted to place themselves exactly where they are? It's 
> expanding art with artifice. No one can tell us now as the little girl 
> walking uphill past the bar with  her mother must be tipping 100 years old 
> now - if she has survived. My mother would have been four at the time and 
> is now in a nursing home.
> 
> Anyway, without his new Leica, the influence of Atget on a very 
> collaborative art scene in Paris, this photo would not have happened.
> 
> Douglas
> 
> On 04/05/2021 14:10, Douglas Barry wrote:
>> Philippe,
>> Of course, you are right!
>> It is Rue de Dr. Vuillieme at Meudon in Paris, looking at the now widened 
>> SNCF bridge.
>> and here is the original photograph
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Meudon+1928+Andre+Kertesz+taken+on+Rue+du+Dr+Vuillieme+Meudon+Paris.jpg.html
>>  
>> 
>> This is a link to the place on streetview
>> https://tinyurl.com/3p38cdx7
>> Maybe we should have a LUG encounter in Paris and do a modern restaging 
>> of this iconic image when CoVid and its variants have been put to the 
>> sword?
>> 
>> Douglas
>> 
>> 
>> On 04/05/2021 11:46, Philippe via LUG wrote:
>>> KERTESZ Andr?, MEUDON (Fr), 1928
>>> 
>>> The guy in the top hat featured on the photo (not yours, he?s long gone) 
>>> could be a German painter by the name of Baumeister.
>>> 
>>> Correct?
>>> 
>>>   Amities
>>> 
>>> Philippe
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Le 3 mai 2021 ? 20:30, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit :
>>>> 
>>>> Here is the a modified image from Dr. G's street view of a location of 
>>>> a well known photograph taken by a famous Leica user with a Leica.
>>>> 
>>>> Who took the famous image there and what was it called?
>>>> 
>>>> There is no prize other than universal acclaim.
>>>> 
>>>> Douglas
>>>> 
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